JPH10190304A - Dielectric filter - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Problem] To easily connect a conductor pattern for an inductor. SOLUTION: A filter for obtaining an LC parallel resonance circuit by an inductance and a line capacitance of a conductor pattern for an inductor formed on the front and back surfaces of a dielectric substrate is provided. The ends of 13 and 14 are drawn out to the end face of the substrate and connected by a conductor pattern formed on this end face.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dielectric filter which can be used in a high-frequency band exceeding 100 MHz, and more particularly to a dielectric filter in which a conductor pattern of one or more turns is formed on the front and back surfaces of a dielectric substrate. It is.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Helical resonators (filters) and dielectric resonators (filters) have been used as filters that can be used in the hundreds of MHz band for mobile communication devices and the like, but the size is limited by the resonance frequency. However, there is a limit to miniaturization.
Therefore, it has been considered that a conductor pattern for an inductor and a conductor pattern for a capacitor are formed on the front and back surfaces of a dielectric substrate, and an LC resonance circuit constituted by the conductor pattern is used as a filter or the like.

[0003] Such a filter is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application No. Hei 3-1832.
No. 91 (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H5-14007) and the like have proposed a filter in which a conductor pattern for an inductor is provided with a line capacitance to form a parallel resonance circuit by inductance and capacitance.

FIG. 3 is a plan view (a) and a bottom view (b) of an example of the filter. Conductor striplines 31 and 32 are formed on the front and back surfaces of a ceramic substrate 30 having a relatively high dielectric constant of about 90. Strip line 31 of this conductor,
Reference numerals 32 are connected by through holes formed in the substrate 30, and constitute one continuous strip line. On the substrate 30,
Strip lines 33, 34 of other conductors are also formed and similarly connected by through holes. Conductor stripline 3
One ends of 1, 33 are connected to conductor patterns facing input / output electrodes 35, 36. Also, conductor strip lines 32, 34
Is pulled out to the end face of the substrate and grounded.

[0005] An LC parallel resonance circuit is formed by the inductance of the conductor pattern continuous on the front and back surfaces and the line capacitance, and a coupling is generated between the respective circuits to form a filter. When the conductor strip lines are arranged line-symmetrically, inductive coupling is increased, and when the strip lines are arranged point-symmetrically, capacitive coupling is increased.

[0006]

In the above-mentioned filter, in order to connect the conductor patterns on the front and back surfaces of the dielectric substrate, a through hole is formed in the dielectric substrate, and the through hole is filled with a conductor. Is required. The man-hours for this occupy a large proportion in the manufacturing, and also cause an increase in cost. The present invention solves such a problem.

[0007]

The object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems by connecting the conductor patterns for inductors on the front and back surfaces at the end face of the dielectric substrate instead of through holes.

In other words, a plurality of inductor conductor patterns, which circulate in the same direction and are connected at one end to each other, are arranged at intervals on the front and back surfaces of the dielectric substrate, and each of the conductor patterns is partially formed on the front and back surfaces. In a dielectric filter in which one end of each of these conductor patterns is grounded and the other end of each of the conductor patterns located at both ends is connected to an input / output end via a capacitor, the conductor patterns for inductors on the front and rear surfaces are It is characterized in that one end is pulled out to a position in contact with the end face of the dielectric substrate and is connected by a conductor film formed on the end face.

[0009]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Inductance is obtained by a conductor pattern that goes around the front and back surfaces of a dielectric substrate, and the line capacitance due to the overlap of the front and back surfaces is used as a parallel capacitance. The conductor patterns on the front and back surfaces are drawn out and connected to the end surface of the dielectric substrate. The circuit shown in FIG. 2 is an equivalent circuit of the dielectric filter according to the present invention. Since the connection is made at the end face, the number of turns of the conductor pattern for the inductor is only about one and a half, but depending on the frequency band, sufficient inductance and capacitance can be realized.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a plan view (a) and a bottom view (b) showing an embodiment of the present invention. Conductor striplines 11 and 12 are formed on the front and back surfaces of a ceramic substrate 10 having a relatively high dielectric constant of about 90. Stripline 1 of this conductor
Reference numerals 1 and 12 are drawn out to positions in contact with the end face of the dielectric substrate, and are connected by a conductor film formed on the end face. Therefore, a conductor pattern for inductor of about one turn is formed on the front side and about half turn is formed on the back side.

The conductor strip line 11 has approximately 1
It is formed as a conductor pattern that goes around the turn. The strip line 12 of the conductor on the back surface connected thereto is also formed as a half-turn conductor pattern, and the end is drawn out to the end face of the substrate. The conductor patterns on the front and back surfaces are formed so as to overlap each other by about a half turn on the front and back surfaces and to face each other. As a result, the line capacitance between the conductor patterns can be obtained.

In this example, the conductor strip lines 11,
Conductor striplines 13 and 14 were formed on the front and back surfaces of the dielectric substrate 10 in a pattern symmetrical to 12. As before,
The connection is made by a conductor film formed on the end face of the dielectric substrate 10.

The ends of the front-side conductors which are not connected to the connection conductor patterns on the end faces of the strip lines 11 and 13 are connected to the conductor patterns formed near the substrate end faces. These conductor patterns are the conductor patterns 1 formed on the back side.
The capacitors are formed so as to be opposed to 5 and 16, whereby a capacitance is formed, and an input / output coupling capacitance of the dielectric filter is obtained.

By forming such a conductor pattern, a dielectric filter having the equivalent circuit shown in FIG. 2 is formed. If the conductor strip line is formed so as to be symmetrical with respect to the direction in which the conductor circulates, the inductive coupling between the two resonators becomes strong, and the pass band characteristic becomes steep on the high frequency side. If the circling strip lines are formed point-symmetrically so as to be the same, capacitive coupling between the resonators will be strong, and the passband characteristics will be steep on the low frequency side.

The dielectric substrate on which the conductor pattern as shown in FIG. 1 is formed is sandwiched between two dielectric substrates from both sides, and a conductor film connected to the ground potential is formed on the surface of the resulting laminate. It is formed. One ends of the strip lines 12 and 14 of the conductor shown in FIG. 1 are also connected to the conductor film connected to the ground potential. Note that the conductor patterns 15, 16 in FIG.
Are connected to input / output terminal electrodes.

In order to obtain an arbitrary pass band characteristic,
It is also possible to arrange three or more orbiting conductor patterns for the inductor on the dielectric substrate or adjust the coupling state.
As a result, a dielectric filter having a pass band characteristic up to about 400 MHz could be obtained.

[0018]

According to the present invention, it is not necessary to form through holes in the dielectric substrate, so that the number of steps can be reduced and the strength of the dielectric substrate can be prevented from being impaired.

In addition, the step of filling the through hole with a conductor is not required, and problems such as reliability of the conductor for connection can be solved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1A is a plan view showing an embodiment of the present invention.
(B) is a bottom view

FIG. 2 is an equivalent circuit diagram of a dielectric filter according to the present invention.

3 (a) is a plan view and FIG. 3 (b) is a bottom view showing an example of a conventional dielectric filter.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10, 30: Dielectric substrate 11, 12, 13, 14: Conductor strip line 15, 16: I / O electrode

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of inductor conductor patterns, which circulate in the same direction and are connected at one end to each other on the front and back surfaces of a dielectric substrate, are arranged at intervals, and each of the conductor patterns is partially formed on the front and back surfaces. Placed so that they overlap,
One end of the conductor pattern is grounded, and the other end of the conductor pattern located at both ends is connected to the input / output end via a capacitor. A dielectric filter drawn out to a position in contact with an end face and connected by a conductor film formed on the end face. 2. A plurality of inductor conductor patterns, which circulate in the same direction and are connected at one end to each other on the front and back surfaces of a dielectric substrate, are arranged at intervals, and each of the conductor patterns is partially formed on the front and back surfaces. Placed so that they overlap,
One end of the conductor pattern is grounded, and the other end of the conductor pattern located at both ends is connected to the input / output end via a capacitor. It is pulled out to a position in contact with the end face, connected by a conductor film formed on the end face, and LC is determined by the inductance of the conductor pattern for each inductor and the line capacitance of the conductor pattern.
A dielectric filter comprising a parallel resonance circuit. 3. A plurality of inductor conductor patterns circulating in the same direction and having one end connected to each other on the front and back surfaces of the dielectric substrate at intervals, and each of the conductor patterns is partially formed on the front and back surfaces. Placed so that they overlap,
In a dielectric filter in which one end of the conductor pattern is grounded and the other end of the conductor pattern located at both ends is connected to the input / output end via a capacitor, the conductor pattern for the inductor on the front side has about one turn, The conductor pattern for inductor on the back side is about a half turn, and the end of winding of the conductor pattern for inductor on the front side and the beginning of winding of the conductor pattern for inductor on the back side are determined by the conductor film formed on the end face of the dielectric substrate. A dielectric filter, which is connected.